Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The Empowering Spirits Foundation will hold the Love Unites Kiss-In, outside the San Diego Mormon Temple in protest of the recent arrest of Derek Jones and Matthew Aune who shared a kiss by the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City. The church maintains that they can stop this behavior because it is private property, but hundreds have protested saying that the Church has not interfered with the many heterosexuals who goto the romantic spot to kiss.

This is a peaceful protest to show the LDS church not to persecute against love. They ask that supporters paint red hearts on their cheeks, foreheads, or wear paper hearts on your clothing.

10 comments:

Anonymous
said...

Was there any mention that the behavior in question was not 'just a kiss' but closer to a full makout? Was there any mention that due to the use of alcohol the two in question became beligerent when asked to stop or move on thus prompting a call to the police? Was there any mention that when the police arrived the two in question became violent with the police?

I have talked to quite a few middle of the road religious people who say gays should have the legal rights of marriage, but they have a hard time with the "marriage" word.

And yes, the common statement is that theys say that gays should behave as gentlemen, and not eg do tongue swapping in public. Which I am sure some gay people do out of a sense of "were here, were queer, get used to it" - a rebelliona against the hitlerite hatred against gay people.

But the mormons are a strange beast - they are so able to compartmentalize the hatred and murders that drove them out to the wild west years ago, while utilizing biblical hatred against gay people who are in relationships.

Why - because they are an all controlling church. My way or the highway.

While they forget that if the bible was interpreted litterally, nearly all of the people in the world would be put to death, or forced into some religions belief system - Hello, Iranian states of America.

I think you can argue that it is based on the sexuality because the Mormon church doesn't seem to stop straight couples kissing at that romantic spot. The Mormon church has had it out for us fighting us for years on gay marriage, protection ordinances, but we got a real wake up call with prop 8.

As has been mentioned by two other comments the two in question were doing more than sharing a simple kiss. Can you point to other examples where the LDS church has forcibly removed gay couples from their property?